British photographer Tim Walker turns his fantastical visual language toward Queer history in Fairyland: Love and Legends, a major exhibition opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London today, October 9th, 2026.

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Tim Walker Traces Five Decades of Queer Activism Through Portraiture in ‘Fairyland’
Tim Walker Traces Five Decades of Queer Activism Through Portraiture in ‘Fairyland’
Tim Walker Traces Five Decades of Queer Activism Through Portraiture in ‘Fairyland’
Tim Walker Traces Five Decades of Queer Activism Through Portraiture in ‘Fairyland’
Tim Walker Traces Five Decades of Queer Activism Through Portraiture in ‘Fairyland’
Tim Walker Traces Five Decades of Queer Activism Through Portraiture in ‘Fairyland’